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John Glenn made space history on this day in 1962 when he orbited the Earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the first American to do so. He was aboard the Friendship 7 Mercurycapsule (above).

Mercury 6 launches Friendship 7 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

Here’s what John Glenn saw while orbiting the Earth.

Friendship 7 capsule after splashdown.

The successful mission concluded with a splashdown and recovery in the Atlantic Ocean, 800 miles southeast of Bermuda.

Sir Sidney Poitier is 92-years-old today.

Actor, director, and diplomat Sidney Poitier became the first African American to win an Oscar after performing in Lilies of the Field (1963). The films Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner(1967) To Sir, with Love (1967) and In the Heat of the Night(1967), additionally bolstered his fame. The American Film Institute called him one of the 25 Greatest Male Stars of All Time in 1999.

In Milwaukee on this day in 1992, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to life in prison. He was later sentenced to a 16th term of life imprisonment for an additional homicide committed in Ohio in 1978. On November 28 of 1994, he was beaten to death in prison by Christopher Scarver (below), a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution.

Christopher J. Scarver will be 50 in July.

Michael Jeffrey Jordan is 56 years old today.

Former high-flying Chicago Bulls shooting guard is considered by many to be the greatest basketball player of all-time. He was a 6-time NBA champion, 6-time NBA Finals MVP, and 5-time NBA MVP.He didn’t make the varsity squad as a sophomore at Emsley A. Laney High School in Wilmington, North Carolina because he was only 5’11".MJ is currently the principal owner and chairman of the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets.

On May 18, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was nominated as the Republican candidate for President of the United States.

On this day in 1999, the U.S. Senate voted on whether to remove President Bill Clinton from office following an impeachment trial which lasted five-weeks. Clinton was acquitted on both articles of impeachment. On the first charge of perjury, 45 Democrats and 10 Republicans voted “not guilty”and on the charge of obstruction of justice the Senate was split 50-50..

After the trial concluded, President Clinton said he was “profoundly sorry” for the burden his behavior imposed on Congress and the American people.

President Clinton heads back to the Oval Office after making his statement to the press.

On this day in 1990, Nelson Mandela was freed by South Africa after 27 years in captivity.

A bronze statue depicting former South African president Nelson Mandela as he walked to freedom outside the Groot Drakenstein prison in Paarl.

On this day in 1945, during World War II, the Yalta Agreement was signed by U.S. President FranklinRoosevelt (center) British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (left) and Soviet leader Josef Stalin.

The leaders agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. Most of the agreements were initially kept secret, but the revelations of the conference particulars became controversial after Soviet-American wartime cooperation degenerated into the Cold War.